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LaGuardia Airport
LaGuardia Airport, also known as LaGuardia International Airport (LGA), is a public airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, opened in 1939 and rebuilt in an $8 billion redevelopment completed in 2022.
Lajes Field
Lajes Field, also known as Lajes Air Base, is a Portuguese Air Force base on Terceira Island in the Azores that hosts US forces and serves as a transatlantic refueling stop.
Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport
Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport, formally Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, is the airport serving Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, at Babatpur about 26 km northwest of the city.
Laminar flow control
Laminar flow control (LFC) is an active aircraft boundary-layer control technique, usually skin suction, that delays turbulent flow to reduce drag and fuel burn by up to about 30 percent.
Land of Bad
Land of Bad is a 2024 military action thriller directed by William Eubank, starring Liam Hemsworth as stranded JTAC Sergeant JJ Kinney and Russell Crowe as drone pilot Reaper, grossing $7 million worldwide.
Landing gear
Landing gear is the system of wheels, skids, floats, or skis that supports an aircraft's weight on the ground, absorbs landing impact, and allows maneuvering on land or water.
Langley Air Force Base
Langley Air Force Base is a US Air Force base in Hampton, Virginia, established in 1916 and home of Air Combat Command and the 1st Fighter Wing's F-22s.
Langley Research Center
Langley Research Center, founded in 1917 as Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, is NASA's oldest field center in Hampton, Virginia, known for wind tunnels and atmospheric research.
LANSA Flight 508
LANSA Flight 508 was a Peruvian domestic flight that broke apart after a lightning strike over the Amazon on December 24, 1971, killing 91 of 92 aboard.
Lao Airlines
Lao Airlines (การบินลาว), formerly Lao Aviation, is the national airline of Laos. Founded in 1976, it flies Airbus A320s and ATR 72s to ten international and seven domestic destinations.
LAPCAT
LAPCAT (Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies) was a European research project, running 2005 to 2008, that studied propulsion for hypersonic civil flight at Mach 4 to 8.
Largest airlines in the world
The largest airlines in the world are ranked by passengers, capacity, fleet, or revenue; in 2024 American Airlines led in passengers and Delta in revenue.
Larnaca International Airport
Larnaca International Airport (Greek: Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Λάρνακας), also known as Larnaca Airport, is Cyprus' main international gateway, opened in 1975 near the city of Larnaca.
Larry F. Pellett
Larry F. Pellett is an American aerospace engineer who led radar signature work at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Las Américas International Airport
Las Américas International Airport, also known as Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas, is the main airport serving Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, about 23 kilometers east of the city.
Lasham Gliding Society
Lasham Gliding Society is a private, not-for-profit gliding club at Lasham Airfield in Hampshire, England, with over 700 members and a claim to be the world's largest gliding club.
Last battle of Bismarck
The last battle of Bismarck, also called the sinking of the Bismarck, was the German battleship's destruction by British warships in the North Atlantic on 27 May 1941.
László Almásy
László Almásy, also known as Ladislaus Almásy, was a Hungarian desert explorer and aviator who discovered the Cave of Swimmers and in 1942 drove German agents across the Sahara to Cairo.
LATAM Airlines Flight 800
LATAM Airlines Flight 800 was a Boeing 787-9 flight that abruptly dropped during cruise from Sydney to Auckland on 11 March 2024, injuring about 50 people.
LATAM Airlines Group
LATAM Airlines Group S.A. is a Chilean airline holding company formed in 2012 through the merger of LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines; it is South America's largest airline group.
Lauda (airline)
Lauda, also known as Laudamotion or LaudaMotion, is a European low-cost airline founded by Niki Lauda in 2018, sold to Ryanair in 2018, and operating Airbus A320 aircraft for the Ryanair Group.
Lauda Air
Lauda Air was an Austrian airline founded in 1979 by Formula 1 champion Niki Lauda, absorbed by Austrian Airlines and retired as a brand in 2013.
Lauda Air Flight 004
Lauda Air Flight 004 was a Boeing 767 flying from Bangkok to Vienna that broke up in flight in 1991 after a thrust reverser deployed, killing all 223 aboard.
Laurence J. Adams
Laurence J. Adams (1921–2008) was an American aerospace engineer who managed the Titan rocket programs, helped defend Martin Marietta from a hostile takeover in 1982, and became its president.
Lavochkin La-15
The Lavochkin La-15, NATO name "Fantail", was a Soviet single-engine jet fighter built by Lavochkin's design bureau that lost to the MiG-15; 235 aircraft were completed in 1949.
Lavochkin La-5
The Lavochkin La-5, early examples designated LaG-5, was a Soviet single-seat fighter of World War II, created in 1942 by fitting the LaGG-3 airframe with a Shvetsov M-82 radial engine.
Lawnchair Larry flight
The Lawnchair Larry flight was an unauthorized 1982 balloon flight by Larry Walters, who rose to 16,000 feet over Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by 42 helium balloons.
Lawrence Sperry
Lawrence Burst Sperry was an American aviation pioneer, son of gyrocompass inventor Elmer Sperry, who demonstrated the first practical aircraft autopilot in 1914, winning a French safety competition.
LDACS
LDACS (L-band Digital Aeronautical Communication System) is a broadband terrestrial air-ground data link for civil aviation in the L-band around 1 GHz, offering far greater capacity than the current VDLm2 link.
Learjet
Learjet is a family of twin-engine business jets created by Bill Lear, first flown in 1963 and produced in Wichita, Kansas; Bombardier built the last one in 2021.